AIFS was pleased to be invited to speak at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Sustainable Agriculture Workshop for #growers this week in Salinas, CA. Moderated by Michael Cahn and Paramveer Singh with UCANR Cooperative Extension (UCCE), their first-ever workshop on this topic provided an opportunity for growers and other Salinas Valley #agtech industry representatives to learn about current and future AI-driven technologies that address sustainable agricultural practices. AIFS Associate Director Steve Brown spoke about AIFS’ work to identify impact areas to benefit #resiliency and #sustainability. Other speakers included Dennis Donohue from the Western Growers, Jason Mellow with Axis Ag, Inc. (ag data, grower, and company integration), Elliot Dorenbaum, the UAS manager with Wilbur Ellis (current and future drone applications), Frank Martin with US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) (drones for strawberry disease management), Raj Khosla from Kansas State University (precision nitrogen management), and Elia Scudiero from University of California, Riverside (better soil maps for nutrient management).
AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS)
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Leveraging the power of AI for sustainable production of safe and nutritious food
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The Artificial Intelligence Institute for Next Generation Food Systems, or AIFS, was launched October 1, 2020 to solve the world’s biggest challenges to crop and food production facing our planet: ensuring a sustainable, nutritious, efficient and safe food supply while mitigating the impacts of climate change. The institute has been designed to be inclusive, fostering collaborations to develop open-source AI solutions across the food system. Given food’s fundamental role in human health and well-being, coupled with its far-reaching impacts on the national economy and environment, the institute brings together more than 40 researchers from six institutions. UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cornell University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This work is supported by AFRI Competitive Grant no. 2020-67021-32855/project accession no. 1024262 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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Join us Dec. 11 for an engaging Speaker Series talk — FoodAtlas: An AI-driven Knowledge Base of Food, Chemicals, and Health Effects. The quality of what we eat profoundly impacts human health. AIFS Director Ilias Tagkopoulos will share his work leveraging #AI and #MachineLearning to make food composition information more accessible. #FoodAtlas connects foods, chemicals, and their health effects using data extracted from 42,000 scientific publications and public databases. In this talk, we will explore the computational methods used to construct this knowledge graph and discuss how the application can drive discoveries in #food, #nutrition, and #health. 🗓 WHEN: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 12–1 pm 📍 WHERE: In person at University of California, Davis or remote 👥 WHO: Open to the public LEARN MORE & REGISTER: https://lnkd.in/gWZqQCnh #foodcompostion #humanhealth #speaker
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Congratulations to Nick Bellizzi for winning the drone giveaway from the FIRA F3 Innovate Pavilion. We loved being a part of this group and hearing new perspectives from so many visitors. We hope you have as much fun with your new drone as we did at FIRA!
Drone Raffle Winner Announced! Thank you to everyone who visited the F3 Innovate pavilion at FIRA USA 2024! Your thoughtful and creative ideas for solving agriculture’s big challenges inspired us and sparked some amazing conversations. We’re excited to announce the winner of our drone raffle: Nick Bellizi from Gotham Greens We have also written a blog post capturing the incredible insights shared during the event. Read more about the key themes and ideas that emerged from your responses here: https://lnkd.in/gExi2ta6 Thank you again for sharing your ideas! Also, huge shoutout to our pavilion partners: F3 Initiative, F3 Local, F3 AgTEC, UCANR, University of California, Merced R&D, California State University, Fresno R&D, The VINE, AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) , CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Merced, and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GoBiz) Visit F3innovate.org to learn more!
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We're excited to see new innovations in crop yield prediction coming from this work, using AI to leverage the power of multimodal data collection.
📢 📢 Publication Alert: Introducing CMAViT 🍇🌾 I am thrilled to announce our latest research, CMAViT: Climate-Management Aware Multimodal ViT model. This innovative approach integrates Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery, numerical climate data, and management practices in text format, leveraging the power of multimodal vision transformers to deliver accurate spatio-temporal crop yield predictions. A special thanks to Mason Earles, and my team for their invaluable supports to this work! Also special thanks to AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) for their valuable support. For details, access the paper https://lnkd.in/gWBXgTVG. #AIFS #NSF #machine_learning #multimodel #vision_transformers #crop_yield_estimation #remote_sensing
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As we enjoy food with family and friends this weekend, Fox News TV asks how #AI is affecting our food from farm to table. We appreciate the work by Bret Baier and Amy Munneke on this feature story highlighting the importance of AI in food and agriculture. They interviewed AIFS Director, Ilias Tagkopoulos and AIFS Ag Lead, Mason Earles, for the story. A USDA study shows 27% of farmers are using emerging technologies and that number is growing. According to Tagkopoulos, AI is empowering, and it is increasing the productivity of existing workers. In this Thanksgiving Day Special Report, Fox examines how AI is being used to streamline the food supply chain while also trying to make food healthier and more affordable. #foodsystems #specialreport #foodsupplychain #agtech https://lnkd.in/dbyA86gd
US agriculture industry tests artificial intelligence: 'A lot of potential'
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In this month's letter, "Checking In With Chancellor May," the Chancellor recounts the strong history at University of California, Davis working at the forefront of agriculture, food science, and sustainability. Today, the university is a leader in ag innovation and food science, and we're proud to be a part of it. The Chancellor points out our work at AIFS leveraging the power of #AI in across the #foodsystem, as well as that of our partners and friends, including the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science and the Integrative Center for Alternative Meat & Protein (iCAMP). #ag #foodscience #sustainability #agriculture #foodsystems #innovation https://lnkd.in/gKYJwST3
Checking In With Chancellor May: At the Forefront of Feeding the World
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We appreciate the work Zhaodan Kong is doing to improve society through multiple projects, and to support young learners. CITRIS and the Banatao Institute highlight his work developing drone systems for early fire detection. He has also taken the time to share his lab and inspire high school students at the AIFS AI Tech Camp (pictured). In his AIFS role, Dr. Kong is working on a project to reduce required fertilizers, pesticides, and water use, while maintaining crop quality and yield.
From fire-detecting drone swarms to optimally efficient human-autonomy collaboration, UC Davis mechanical and aerospace engineer Zhaodan Kong builds complex tech systems to address complex challenges. Read about his research: https://lnkd.in/gXZQukpz 📸: UC Davis #CyberPhysicalSystems #Drones #UAVs #Wildfires #HumanAutonomyTeaming University of California, Davis | UC Davis College of Engineering | UC Davis Air Quality Research Center | UC Davis Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine | AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS)
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AIFS Director, Ilias Tagkopoulos, spoke to a group of agri-food startups visiting University of California, Davis from around the world. The event, hosted by UC Davis Venture Catalyst with SVG Ventures | THRIVE, was designed to introduce companies in this space to the work being done at UC Davis and potential opportunities to partner with university faculty. Thank you to Mike Lemcke for organizing the event and Justin Siegel for speaking. Thank you to Cheng-En Tan for being on hand to discuss AIFS research and assist with poster displays.
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We appreciate the opportunity for AIFS to participate in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium Series. Thank you to Steve Brown for making the trip to DC, to Christine Diepenbrock, Matthew Stasiewicz, and Nitin Nitin for their presentations, and especially to Christine for staying up late in Uganda to participate!
Associate Director, USDA-NIFA/NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute for Next Generation Food Systems at the University of California, Davis
Thank-you to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for hosting a Fall Symposium Series last week in Arlington VA, that included as one of its parallel meetings, two full days with sessions addressing using AI to build secure and resilient agricultural systems, with a focus on leveraging AI to mitigate cyber, climatic and economic threats in food, agricultural, and water (FAW) systems. With meeting co-chairs Frank Stein and Feras A. Batarseh, PgC, MSc, JM, PhD, I represented AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) in person on two panels, with AIFS researchers Christine Diepenbrock, Matthew Stasiewicz, and Nitin Nitin presenting remotely. The first, moderated by Steven Thomson of USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, set the stage for the 5 Ag AI Institutes in this space. In the next session, organized by Shawn Haag from AI-CLIMATE Institute and moderated by Gulnihal Ozbay, AIFS and the other institutes spoke in more detail about how AI can be applied to address threats to food systems. The photo shows the panelists in the second session which also included Girish Chowdhary of AIFARMS, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian with AIIRA - AI Institute For Resilient Agriculture and Fatima Boukari with AI-CLIMATE. Not shown is Ananth Kalyanaraman from AgAID Institute
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Are you a crop advisor, ag specialist, or grower who would like to learn more about emerging technologies in #agriculture? We invite you to apply for the upcoming #AgTech Workshop for industry professionals: 🕐 WHEN: December 6-7, 2024 📍 WHERE: University of California, Davis 🎮 WHAT: 2-Day Hands-On Workshop 👉 PRIORITY APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 15, 2024 This 2-day professional development opportunity will introduce you to advanced technologies — including #drones, #sensors, and #AI — that are revolutionizing the way farmers are producing our food. ✅ Experience high-impact practices using rapidly changing tools to equip yourself to make technology-related decisions. ✅ Gain the knowledge and skills to support farm workers transition to a more tech-enabled workforce. ✅ Receive an $800 stipend upon completion. To learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/gQDyRqbF This engaging workshop is co-sponsored by AIFS and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program (Western States).
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